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Anemorphilous
adjective · 78% connection
Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Anemoscope
noun · 78% connection
An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a v…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Band
verb · 78% connection
A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Boiler
noun · 78% connection
A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Boss
noun · 78% connection
The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Bugle
noun · 78% connection
A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in mil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Clavichord
noun · 78% connection
A keyed stringed instrument, now superseded by the pianoforte. See Clarichord.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Concertina
noun · 78% connection
A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Crank
noun · 78% connection
A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Essential
adjective · 78% connection
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Flatus
noun · 78% connection
Wind or gas generated in the stomach or other cavities of the body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Frolic
verb · 78% connection
To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Harmonicon
noun · 78% connection
A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Harmoniphon
noun · 78% connection
An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Harmonium
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing ai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Kent bugle
unknown · 78% connection
A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
Key
noun · 78% connection
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, portable, keyed, wind, instrument.
